The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Covered With Books: The Home of Mordkhe and Charne Schaechter

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Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Yiddish poet and daughter of linguist Mordkhe Schaechter, describes how books dominated her childhood home, down to the last inch of space.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath was born in Bronx, New York in 1958.